{"id":76248,"date":"2016-10-28T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=76248"},"modified":"2016-10-28T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T19:12:00","slug":"infantry-day-celebrations-at-vajra-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/76248","title":{"rendered":"Infantry DAY Celebrations at VAJRA Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76249\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PPN2710201603.jpg\" alt=\"ppn2710201603\" width=\"1024\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PPN2710201603.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PPN2710201603-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jalandhar, October 27 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; Vajra Corps celebrated the 69<sup>th<\/sup> Infantry Day with traditional solemnity and gaiety on 27 Oct 2016.\u00a0 Lieutenant General BS Sahrawat, General Officer Commanding, Vjra Corps laid wreath at `Vajra Shaurya Sthal\u2019 in Jalandhar and paid homage to the fallen heroes.\u00a0 Apart from the serving officers of the station, Infantry veterans of Jalandhar station were also present on the occasion.  October 27 is celebrated as Infantry Day by the Indian Army as it was on this day in 1947, that an Infantry Company of the First Battalion The Sikh Regiment was airlifted from Delhi to Srinagar to liberate Kashmir from the invading tribals who were supported by Pakistan Army.\u00a0<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76250\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PPN2710201604.jpg\" alt=\"ppn2710201604\" width=\"1024\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PPN2710201604.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PPN2710201604-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>At the Golden Arrow Division the wreath was laid by the General Officer Commanding, Major General Vijay Pingale and other officers paid homage to the Martyrs at the Infantry War Memorial. It was followed by unit level Barakhana for all ranks. General Officer Commanding of Pine Division, Major General Rajesh Chaba also laid a wreath at the \u201cPine War Memorial\u201d. The ceremony was also graced by all seniors Veterans, serving officers and Jawans of the station.\u00a0 Wreath was also laid at Panther Division at the Panther Inspirational Park by General Officer Commanding, Panther Division. Wreath laying ceremonies were also organised at Dera Baba Nanak War Memorial and Batala War Memorial which were attended by all serving ranks and Veterans. Infantry, also popularly known as the \u2018Queen of the Battle\u2019 is the largest fighting arm of the Indian Army.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jalandhar, October 27 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; Vajra Corps celebrated the 69th Infantry Day with traditional solemnity and gaiety on 27 Oct 2016.\u00a0 Lieutenant General BS Sahrawat, General Officer Commanding, Vjra Corps laid wreath at `Vajra Shaurya Sthal\u2019 in Jalandhar and paid homage to the fallen heroes.\u00a0 Apart from the serving officers of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Infantry DAY Celebrations at VAJRA Corps | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/76248\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Infantry DAY Celebrations at VAJRA Corps | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0\u00a0 Jalandhar, October 27 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; 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